Sustainable Renewal of an Empty Block to Public Urban Space: Gentrification of the Railway Workers' Housing Estate and its Garden's Urban Interface, Sétif, Algeria

The contribution questions the prospective role of recently rehabilitated garden railway workers' housing district, a.k.a. "Cité des Cheminots", in Sétif, Algeria, through its immediate environment and multiple vocations district. In current state, it highlights imbalances Algerian urban fabric by reducing space to needs easements, denoting articulatory as resulting from planning traditional cities. From past present, a multiscalar reading will deduce consideration an interface with surroundings. Around historical, sensitive, renewal approach, aim is identify potentiality offers dynamics that led formation first estate evolution towards historic center Sétif town spontaneous reshaping district late 1990. This observation allow Cheminots" be placed sustainable well-thought-out process articulates scales city well functional residential space.